Hendrix: Classic or Dud?

Paul Motian playing Woodstock with Arlo Guthrie was an unexpected story that I picked up from the documentary about him.

I found another jazz drummer in a rock (blues) context that fits in where this discussion was going.

I enjoyed a documentary on Paul Butterfield and it got me curious on his records after the first two. I’ve had the first two and enjoyed them for literally 30 years now but never heard any of his later music.

I got one of those Original Album Series and was checking out “Pigboy Crabshaw” and thinking the drums were really groovy and sounding great. The drummer for that later Butterfield group was Phil Wilson who has a pretty heavy duty Jazz resume.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillip_Wilson

Thought it was an interesting nugget to come across.

he plays drums on julius hemphill's "dogon A.D."!

Ran into a Hendrix cd lot on the Bay at a good price, so got a bunch of the recent live remasters in a single shot, including a couple I never had before.

So for the last three weeks I have been on a pretty big dive into Jimi James.

First, for all the crap his sister and they get, I do have to say that Eddie Kramer has done a good job using modern tools to get pretty lush mixes out of these 60s recordings. Cheese ball marketing and some of those studio demos probably should have been left on the shelf, but these live recordings are fairly well done.

Miami Pop 68 was a new one for me and it is one of the tighter Experience performances.

Forum release is much better sounding than the Reprise one from 90s. Got to wonder how much software used, even if remodeled it is fairly seamlessly done. That was a good show anyway.

Atlanta Pop I had before and parts of it I always thought was some of my favorites, especially that ‘Here My Train A Coming’. I’ve got it planned in my head to listen to it and Allman Brothers Atlanta Pop as road trip soundtrack some long drive this coming summer.

Berkeley I had before but never caught me as a great show, as he had some tuning issues but in this few listens - I Have to admire opening the show basically developing material on stage. That Machine Gun with Mitch is pretty hot. I Don’t Live Today is grebt.

Winterland (highlights single disc)…I always really liked the old Ryko disc, but this single disc is all killer and no filler. Sound was good but this one is excellent. I’d say a definite recommendation to check out.

This always happens in movies, and I guess most people don't notice, but it can be distracting for me when they take a poster of a Jimi Hendrix exhibit from 1992 (with the kind of art and design that screams '90s) and use it in a scene that happens in 1980.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qq0LycNDU8o